FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Marathon Race Promotion Centre opens tomorrow

Athens (4 August 2004): The Marathon Race Promotion Centre will be
officially opened tomorrow, Thursday 5 August at 21:00 in Marathon (83,
Marathonos Ave) by Ioannis Spanudakis, Managing Director of the ATHENS 2004
Organising Committee for the Olympic Games.

The renovation of the Museum, an initiative of the Organising Committee for
the Olympic Games (Marketing Division and City Operations Department), was
sponsored by ALPHA BANK, Grand National Sponsor and the Official Bank of
the ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games.

The Marathon Race Promotion Centre will house a permanent exhibition
entitled “Olympic Marathons”, a donation by the Olympic Museum of Lausanne
to the Municipality of Marathonas that consists of documentary texts and
photographs of the Marathon Race.

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